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A baby is being weighed at a UNICEF-supported health centre in Borno State.

Health & HIV

See how UNICEF is supporting the Government of Nigeria to improve immunization coverage and provide access to quality healthcare.

The heroes of Zomon Ahmadu

The heroes of Zomon Ahmadu

Braving a harsh climate and difficult terrain, women health workers are providing remote communities lifesaving services

Bayaro, the local blacksmith, is also a UNICEF-supported medical corps

In Yalwa, a resident ‘doctor’

With support from the EU, UNICEF is reducing infant mortality rates in Bauchi communities with a community health volunteer programme

A mother and her child at a health centre

In northern Nigeria, volunteer drivers save children’s lives

Thanks to EU support, there is now a corps of 900 trained volunteer drivers transporting children who need urgent medical care to hospitals in Kebbi State

Mother and child

In north-west Nigeria, cash transfers benefit family health

The EU funds transport vouchers through its Maternal, Newborn, Child Health and Nutrition project in Kebbi, Adamawa and Bauchi States

Community champion

Community champion reaches Hausa community in Lagos

UNICEF works with community champions who are key to spreading messages on how to access health interventions in under-served communities in Lagos State

A baby in Nigeria

Nigeria accounts for one of the highest stillbirth rates

One stillbirth occurs every 16 seconds, according to first-ever joint UN estimates

Community Oriented Resource Persons go house-to-house looking out for sick children or pregnant women to identify those in need of urgent help

Community resource persons fight childhood diseases

Community Oriented Resource Persons, supported by UNICEF with funds from the EU, go house-to-house to identify children and women in need of urgent help

Delivering healthcare in hard-to-reach communities

Mobile medical teams save lives in hard-to-reach communities

The EU-funded Newborn, Child Health and Nutrition Project outreach team provides health services to pregnant women and children in hard-to-reach communities

A volunteer speaking to a mother about hygiene

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